[linux-audio-user] usb-Firewire-mLAN

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 14:46 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 07:25:04 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 08:05 +0300, Mehmet Okonsar wrote:
> > > How far audio devices using USB-FireWire are supported?
> > > Do major runners like Rosegarden,Ardour, Muse.. plan to support Yamaha's
> > > mLan, which is supposed to be an "open" standard?
> > 
> > mLan is not an open standard at this point in time. Yamaha have
> > continued to refuse to make available the information required for an
> > open source implementation, even though they say they will.
> 
> Actually, they did some time ago: http://mlanalsa.sourceforge.net/
> The specs were provided by yamaha, but I cant see what licence its under
> from a first glance.

this is great news. don't know how i missed that, but its a good
reminder. its GPL'ed.

as far as i can tell from CVS, the connection management code is still
not available. there is a big chunk of code that would use it that is
commented out with the note:

   // disabled, since no mLAN software release available.

so i think that this is really just an implementation of IEC61883, not
the whole of mLAN.

--p